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By MARC BERMAN

Steve Nash decided to take the money now and sign a contract extension. Grant Hill, who was offered more money, and Jason Kidd spurned the Knicks. Jordan Hill and Toney Douglas didn’t look like the second-coming of Stockton-Malone in Vegas..

The Knicks have awoken to a new reality that July, 2010 might not be the charmed month they had envisioned.

Chris Duhon’s contract expires after next season and the PG crop in 2010 is nothing like the wing and power forward assortment. There was always the belief inside the Knick organization Nash would reunite with D’Antoni one day .

And so with a young, promising, up-and-coming PG on the market for a long-term mid-level package in Bucks’ Ramon Sessions, the Knicks are mulling whether to act now.

Sessions is an unheralded player, a second-round pick, finished his second season as the Bucks starting PG and had a very decent year. He could be a diamond in the rough. The Knicks have inside info about the kid’s strong character, with assistant Dan D’Antoni having coached him in South Carolina.

Sessions pummeled Duhon this past season. If he was just a little more prominent, the Knicks would not be in the chase at the mid-level exception. It still may not be enough, with the Clippers involved in a sign-and-trade scenario with Milwaukee and the Bucks able to match any offer if it chooses. But the Bucks are going marketing crazy with their promising first-rounder Brandon Jennings, whom the Knicks passed on for Hill.

If they can get Sessions at 23, it’s another young piece to build around Danilo and Wilson. Let’s hope it happens.